THE IMPACT OF GENDER INEQUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION ON HUMAN WELL-BEING IN THE CASE OF PAKISTAN: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

This study has investigated the impact of gender inequality and environmental degradation on human well-being in case Pakistan from 1980 to 2019. Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root test is used for stationarity variables. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) co-integration among variables model. results show that a negative significant Pakistan, while equality encourages well-being. calculated there positive, but insignificant relationship between Pakistan. estimated economic misery growth positive with Based results, it concluded equality, misery, are playing an important role determining Therefore, improve well-being, government must reduce enhancing parallel growth. Keywords: inequality, degradation, JEL Classifications: J1, O10, Q0 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.8415